September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SMART Behind Firewalls
by PerfectReign 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Today at work, I became very frustrated with SMART on my laptop. It worked great yesterday at home, then today it was giving me a whole host of errors. I was trying to install tuxracer (or rather penguin racer) and lineak. In both cases, I kept getting parameter errors. Before writing the list (and possibly being godwinated) I wanted to see if I had the same problems at home. Sure enough, I installed those packages without a hitch. Is there - that people know of - an issue with some of the smart repositories behind firewalls. It seemed to work fine for the "offiical" SUSE repo, but none of the others. I was authenticated and could get out to web pages, but just not the smart repos. TIA -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

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RE: [SLE] ugly openoffice menu fonts in suse 10.1
by Luis Vicente Castillo Corbella 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

-----Mensaje original----- De: Hans van der Merwe [mailto:hvdmerwe@sunspace.co.za] Enviado el: Jueves, 07 de Septiembre de 2006 7:08 a.m. Para: SLE Asunto: Re: [SLE] ugly openoffice menu fonts in suse 10.1 On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 11:43 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: > Hello all: > > I use SUSE 10.1 with its default OpenOffice version (2.0.2 build > 2.0.2.15). > In some menus the fonts looks very strange, pale (or even impossible > to read) and ugly. For example in the print dialog the 'properties' > button's fonts, in the format paragraph and format page dialogs some > lines etc. > The fonts in the text editor window and on the printouts look OK. > I don't know if it's important or not but I have ATI Radeon 7000 vga > card and use the native linux radeon driver. > > What would be the solution to make these fonts look normal? > Thanks, > IG > Good luck, I have the same issues with fonts on OO in SuSE10.1 (10.0 works fine). I have posted everywhere but it seems we're the only ones having this problem? When I switch off anti-aliasing in OO the fonts are rendered horribly, even when changeing the UI font to Tahoma. I have screenshots, if anyone is interested. Yes, this is a OO problem, in mandriva is the same, an any other distro with libfreetype6 compiled with bit enabled, no distro problem, OO problem. Regards

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IE +Suse 10.1
by Art Fore 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

For those of you who need to have windows only for Internet Explorer or need it occasionally for IE sites only, here is a link for you. http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html I have installed it on both X86-64 and Inspiron 8500 P4. It only requires wine, The script downloads and installs IE & media player flawlessly. There is both 5.0 and 6.0 versions. Art

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Kmobiletools and Bluetooth
by Lívio Cipriano 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi, Anyone knows an howto to setup working kmobiletools with buletooth? LC

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How do I check for differences...
by JB 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi all, Let's say I have a text file I got one day, and a week later I get the text file again but want to compare the two to see if there are *any* differences at all between them, like the spelling of one word, or the ommission of a word or sentence, things like that? Thanks, JB -- "A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and he carries his banner openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely." Cicero

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Backing up the SuSE 10.0 DVD
by Paul Abrahams 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

I have a DVD writer (ATAPI DVD+RW) 4x4x12 and I'm trying to back up the SuSE 10.0 distribution DVD using K3B. I'm using the drive both for input and output (I assume an image is created in between). But K3B gives me the message "The writer does not support writing Double Layer DVD" as soon as it attempts the copy. What should I do to create the backup? Paul

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HP Pavilion a1440n
by Robert Lewis 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

I have been trying to load SUSE 10.1 and others like Kubuntu etc. on this brand new HP Pavilion a1440n. Including some livecd's. I see the opening splash screen but then the video dies and that appears to be the end of the installation. Also, I have tried on new harddrives to load XP-PRO and or XP but it also fails very quickly. At one point I used partition magic to look at the harddrive that came with the machine it has XP Media Edition on it. Here is that the partition table looks like. This boots ok. PARTITION TYPE USED MB USED MB UNUSED MB STATUS PRI/LOG *:HP_PAVILION NTFS 229,710.6 22,895.6 206,815.1 Active Primary *: UNALLOCATED 7.8 0 0 NONE Primary *:HP_RECOVERY FAT32 8,754.2 8287.5 466.7 NONE Primary So I took the second disk and duplicated the first line above and then assigning the balance to UNALLOCATED using partition magic. This didn't help at all with installation. I then tried to use the drive that is booting to install XP-PRO but it failed as well in the same place without disturbing the original drive. I have tried two SATA II 260-GB drives. One came with the machine that has the XP Media Edition. I have also tried and IDE drive 160-GB and everything behaves the same. Note: The BIOS sees all these drives just fine and obviously so did Partitition Magic. Question: Has anyone else had problems with these manufactured machines. I never have problems with ones I build. This is a friends machine FYI, and I am trying to help him out. Is it possible that HP built some restriction into the BIOS looking for their RECOVERY Partition and if they don't see something appropriate there they just give up? Cheers, Bob

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[opensuse] local YOU Server for openSUSE 10.1
by Mrvka Andreas 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi list! Can anybody help me configuring a local YOU server for openSUSE 10.1 ? In YAST of my Sles 9 Server I go to YOU-Server-Konfiguration There are already SUSE SLES 9 and SUSE CORE 9 defined. So I want to add update support for openSUSE 10.1 and do the following: Produktname: SuSE Linux Version: 10.1 Architektur: i386 Synchronisations-URL: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse Authentifikation: Anonymous With this entries the server tries to fetch these folders: - GET http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/media.1/media - GET http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/media.1/patches - GET http://ftp.suse.com/pub/i386/update/SUSE-Linux/10.1/patches/directory.3 - GET http:// ....... /pub/i386/update/SUSE-Linux/10.1/patches/directory.yast but these are not available... TIA Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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MickySoft and Office.
by Fred A. Miller 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

MickySoft IS porting Office to Linux......talking to someone who's beta with it now. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 5.x

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HP LaserJet 3390 for Win 95 users
by Zoran Ljubisic 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi all, We have Suse 9.3 server and few Win XP and Win 95 (don't ask) clients. We plan to get HP LaserJet 3390 All-in-one, print/scan/fax/copy, (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/hr/hr/sm/WF06a/10001977-10004075-10004079-10…). Printer understands HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP Postscript Level 3 emulation. For XP clients everything is OK, but there is not driver for 95 clients. I want to use only printers network interface. My idea for W95 users is to create raw printer on suse and to use some compatible driver for win 95 clients. This printer on suse will use port 9100 for printing. Maybe same could be accomplished without client driver at W95 side, but I am not sure. HP LJ 3390 supports port9100 (Direct Mode) and Line printer daemon (LPD). What option is better? Do I have some other options? Zoran

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